Re: Coordination on standardizing gettext() in future POSIX

[Joerg Schilling]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > From looking at the current manuals available on Linux systems, I propose 
> > to 
> > start with the manual pages from OpenSolaris since these manual pages seem 
> > to 
> > be closer from being complete enough for the POSIX standard.
>
> The text from LI18NUX [1] and LSB [2] would be a better starting point.
>
> [1] 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20030608111824/http://www.li18nux.org:80/li18nux2k/

Hi,

are there plans to make GNU gettext(1) complatible to [1]?

Background:

The historic gettext from SunOS did expand escape sequences by default since 
1989 and did not have any options at that time. So it is obvious that this is 
the default behavior.

[1] describes the same behavior for the no-option case, but GNU gettext(1) does 
not expand escape sequences unless the option -e has been specified.

This behavior of GNU gettext(1) is in conflict with the definition in [1], 
while Solaris gettext(1) is compliant and disables escape sequence expansion 
only with the -s option (unless -e is used at the seme time).

So Solaris behaves like documented in [1] and in the Solaris man pages, while 
Linux does not.





Jörg

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